command-not-found - suggest installation of missing software packages in terminal

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HowTo: install command-not-found

Introduction[edit]

Quote Debian package command-not-foundarchive.org:

Suggest installation of packages in interactive bash sessions This package will install a handler for command_not_found that looks up programs not currently installed but available from the repositories.

Installation[edit]

The order in which these commands are run matter, [1] but the process is idempotent. This means it is possible to re-apply all of the following steps.

1. Delete /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/30usability-miscarchive.org because it contains settings that speed up APTarchive.org but break command-not-found. [2]

sudo rm -f /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/30usability-misc

2. Install command-not-found.

Install package(s) command-not-found following these instructions

1 Platform specific notice.

2 Update the package lists and upgrade the system The Web Archive Onion Version .

sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade

3 Install the command-not-found package(s).

Using apt command line --no-install-recommends option The Web Archive Onion Version is in most cases optional.

sudo apt install --no-install-recommends command-not-found

4 Platform specific notice.

5 Done.

The procedure of installing package(s) command-not-found is complete.

3. Run update-command-not-found with root rights.

sudo update-command-not-found

4. Done.

Setup of update-command-not-found has been completed.

Issues[edit]

local variable 'cnf' referenced before assignment[edit]

See Also[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

  1. Also apt update cannot be skipped since package contents files need to be downloaded.
  2. Acquire::IndexTargets::deb::Contents-deb::DefaultEnabled false;
    

    breaks command-not-found because it requires /var/lib/apt/lists/*Contents* to exist.

    See: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857090archive.org

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